TOP 40 BOOK CLUB READS | FICTION
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a QueSTiOn Of idenTiTy
SuSan hill
A decade ago, Alan Keyes was tried for the murder of
three elderly women in Yorkshire. He was acquitted for
insufficient evidence and authorities provided him with a
new identity. In short, Alan Keyes ceased to exist; no birth
certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport and
no dental records. Matter closed!
But then, on a cold and snow y night in sheltered
accommodation, a ver y old lady is tied to a chair in her
home and strangled with electrical flex. Bizarrely, the
murderer clips the vic tim’s toe nails as their ‘signature’.
Her death is quickly followed by two more killings, both with
the same signature. The modus operandi is quickly linked
to Keyes in his killings ten years ago – could he be back?
But how can they trace him when he
no longer exists?
This is the seventh Detective Chief
Inspector Simon Serrailler novel
from Man Booker Prize nominee,
Susan Hill.